The TRN Blog provides a home for short posts that examine contemporary, historical or conceptual issues in tax research, education, policy and practice. We welcome contributions from all academics and TRN members, including early career researchers. We are unable to accept submissions from undergraduate students.

If you would like to contribute a post, please email the editors:
Sara Closs-Davies and Dominic de Cogan.

Please ensure you follow these guidelines for all submissions, as posts that do not meet them may be automatically rejected without review:   

• Submit using your academic or professional email address.
• Use Microsoft Word format (.doc or .docx)
• Limit the post to 2,000 words including footnotes and references.
• Include a clear and descriptive title.
• Provide your institutional affiliation.
• Include a high-resolution profile photo and provide a statement confirming that you hold the copyright for the image and that you approve of the photo being uploaded and used on the TRN’s website and social media.
• Provide a short two to three line biography, preferably with a link to your institutional profile.
• Ensure full and proper academic citation and referencing.
• Do not submit work that has been published elsewhere, including other blogs or online forums.
• Any use of Artificial Intelligence (such as Microsoft CoPilot and Chat GPT) must be correctly referenced.

Please ensure the post is accessible to a non-specialist audience, as our readership includes interdisciplinary researchers, policymakers, journalists and educators.

The editors retain full discretion to publish a post without revisions, request revisions or decline a submission. We aim  to publish approximately one post per month and will notify authors if a delay is expected.

Copyright: Copyright remains with individual authors. Requests to republish material should be directed to the author.

Disclaimer: The views expressed in blogposts reflect the authors’ opinions and not those of Tax Research Network Ltd, its officers, editors or members. Posts are academic resources and do not constitute tax or legal advice.

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